Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] inheritance for geant

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Sven Ehrke wrote:
> 
> geant now supports a simple single inheritance mechanism:

The build files in Gobo (except those recently committed
to CVS by Andreas) now take this facility into account.
This makes the writing of build files much simpler and
avoids a lot of code duplication thanks to the combination
of generic build files and geant variables. For example see
the file '$GOBO/misc/eiffel.eant' and the files 'build.eant'
in '$GOBO/src/*', or the file '$GOBO/misc/test.eant' and the
file 'build.eant' in '$GOBO/test/kernel' or those in
'$GOBO/example/test/*'.

Note that I had to fix 2 bugs in GEANT_PROJECT in order to
make it work. The first one was to allow environment variables
such as $GOBO in the filename specified in the 'inherit'
attribute value, and the second was a call to Void target
crash when the default target name of a parent build file
was not present in the child file. These bugs are fixed now.

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Eric Bezault
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